Time to bring the troops home

More sad news from Afghanistan, time our troops were brought home from places where they have no business or need to be. If those who govern us are determined to pursue this illegal and immoral war then perhaps it is they and their families who ought to serve on the front lines. When you spend so many years killing indiscrimnately then only and idiot would not envison some kind of reaction.

Glen Greenwald sums it perfectly

“Far from believing that another 9/11 can’t happen, I’m amazed that it hasn’t already, and am quite confident that at some point it will. How could any rational person expect their government to spend a full decade (and counting) invading, droning, cluster-bombing, occupying, detaining without charges, and indiscriminately shooting huge numbers of innocent children, women and men in multiple countries and not have its victims and their compatriots be increasingly eager to return the violence ….

Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage—torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians—which does not change its moral color when it is committed by ‘our’ side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.